Thxxx, Aractain, for your replies #14 & #15 : they confirm that I should wait a year or two before buying SPORE ... a far future when the multiple EA expansions will have re-introduced the features that have been removed, before August 2008, by the EA $$$ machine -- to dumb it down, and maximize profits over a longer period of time.

Well for what it is worth the game really has nothing to do with evolution in it current state. Moreover it only gives one account per user copy. That coupled with the fact that the body elements you add to your lifeform have zero impact on its game play really make it something for a little child to be honest. 

It is almost inevitable. The more hyped a game is, especially years in advance, the bigger the disappointment. Diakatana anyone?

I love playing spore and the DRM didn't affect me at all. Dunno why it causes some people so many problems.

The only problem I had with Spore’s DRM was registering the game before it’s official release date but I could still play it I was just not able to automatically download stuff.

Loonismeister, you've got it wrong.

The DRM causes so many people so many problems.

This is why I refuse to buy anything from EA... ANYTHING... last game I bought of theirs was SimCity4

I can't install it on more than one computer. It gives me a "can not connect" message. I hate EA.

<sarcasm>Why buy a game when you can just rent a dumbed-down version for the same price? Duh.</sarcasm>

I had Spore for a few days. I played it to death. The first few "stages" were just not fun. Well, the first stage was a hoot, swiming around and eating stuff, but as for creature, tribe and civ stages...they were crap.

Space was where it was atl. That was very well done. But while I was playing this great space stage, I remembered that I had Gal Civ 2 and Sins...so I instaled them, played them, realised that I was kidding my self with Spore and took it back.

I shop at EB and I have a preorder there for Fallout 3 and WAR, so I put the money towards those insted

Happy times folks.

On a side note all the fallout about the DRM has generated a lot of plugs for SD on many forums and in several news stories. Additionally, I think if DemiGod becomes a major selling product, it will serve as a very loud wakeup call to the industry.

Creature creater; animations; music; graphics: 9

Game play: 3  (5 sharewhare games papercliped together, with rts and fps mechanics from a decade ago).

gameplay is amazingly boring i just got to the city stage and i cant play anymore cause of how bad it is for the other stages i only played around 10 minutes a day cause i couldnt handle how simple it is

Well the story has made the BBC but sadly no plug for SD in it. You can read the story here.

Still waiting for the NYT story to surface - you just know SD will get plugged in that one.

One can only hope (I plan on buying Demigod just to show my support for Stardock's business model, even though the game doesn't really seem to be up my alley). But judging by the way EA is reacting to the backlash on Mass Effect and Spore ('generously' upping your activations to 5 instead of 3 on AC3, as well as a few quotes I've seen from them), I'm not holding out much hope that they, at least, will get it.

They won't get it so long as their games continue to sell vast numbers of copies.  DRM hasn't hurt their sales figures.  It's hurt a demographic they don't care about:

Upset people on internet forums.